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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM removal tool
Message-ID: <9573@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 90 14:56:58 GMT
References: <8221@dime.cs.umass.edu> <50537@bbn.COM> <37675@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <37675@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes:
>You can save a lot of money, time, plus get a longer warantee by putting in
>SIMMs yourself--BUT you risk breaking the SIMM socket.  If you do this, you'll
>need to replace the whole logic board, which will cost WAY more than the $$ you
>saved by doing the replacement yourself.  The SIMM tool was designed to help
>reduce this breakage problem and speeds up the removals to boot.

I'm hesitant to admit that I know this, but breaking the clips on the
SIMM socket does not ruin the motherboard.  Electrician's tape works
perfectly well to hold SIMMs in place, as long as you don't make a
habit of transporting your Mac.  You do not have to replace the
motherboard; just stretch the tape from edge to edge.  I've opened the
computer a few times since then and there has not been any melting.

But in any case, I haven't noticed that the labor charges for
installing SIMMs are very high, so I'm not sure the statement about
saving "a lot" of money is true either.  (I haven't paid such charges
myself, but I have some non-gearhead friends who have.  $120 per SIMM
including installation.  A lot of mail-order places charge that just
for the SIMMs with no installation.)  It's what, about ten minutes
of labor?  Even at $60/hour that's not very much.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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